Clothespin



July 31, 1923. 1,463.670

P. CAMPBELL CLOTHESPIN Filed May 16. 1922 Patented July 31, 1923.

UNITE STAT.

PAUL CAMPBELL, OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS.

CLOTHESPIN.

Application filed Mav 1c, 1922. Serial No. 531,395.

T 0 all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that PAUL CAMPBELL, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at San Antonio, in the county of Bexar and State of Texas, has invented new and useful Improvements in Clothespins, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive metallic clothes pin which may be left permanently connected with the line for convenience and accessibility when requiredyand with this object in view the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein:

Figure l is a view of a clothes pin embodying the invention applied in the operative position to the line.

Figure 2 is a similar view showing the pin in the inoperative or inactive position on the line.

Figures 3, 4, 5 and 6 are views respec' tively of opposite sides and opposite edges of the pin.

The pin is constructed of a single blank of resilient wire which is doubled upon itself and coiled to form the combined grip and spring eye 10 from which extend side strands 11 and 12 which are doubled upon themselves to form loops constituting opposed jaws which are yieldingly impelled toward each other by the spring tendency of the coil. The looped ends of the jaws are deflected as indicated at 13 to facilitate engagement with a' line as indicated at 14 and also to pass readily over a fabric suspended on or extended over the line, and the free ends of the blank are arranged in intersecting relation as indicated at 15 with the extremity of one member extended and deflected from the plane ofv the eye 10 to form a stud 16 constituting a directing finger whereby when the pin is not in use or has been disengaged from. the article .of clothing which it has served to clamp on the line, may be used to direct the line into the loops forming the jaws,the pin being inverted or reversed in position for this purpose as indicated in Figure 2.

In other words the loops which constitute the jaws serving to clamp an article of clothing on a line when the pin is in its nor mal or operative position serve as'the means of suspending the pin on the line when the article is not in use, the position of the pin when not in use being reversed from that in which it serves to clamp the article on the line so that the line may lie within the loops which constitute the jaws instead of between the jaws as when the pin is inuse;

.Having described the invention, what is claimed as new anduseful is 1. A metallic clothes pin consisting of a single blank of wire doubled upon itself and coiled at its center to form a spring eye and having its sides extended radially from the eye and looped to form opposing jaws which are spring impelled toward each other by the eye, with the terminal of one of the sides angularlydeflected from the plane of the eye to form an entrance throatto the loops constituting said jaws.

2. A metallic clothes pin consisting of a single blank of wire doubled upon itself and coiled at its center to form a spring eye and having its sides extended radially from the eye and looped to form opposing jaws which are spring impelled toward eachv other by the eye, with the terminal of one of the sides angularly deflected from the plane of the eye to form an entrance throat to the loops constituting said jaws, the extremities of the blank adjacent to said deflected terminal being disposed in intercepting relation. g

3. A metallic clothes pin consisting of a single blank of wire doubled upon itself and coiled at its center to form a spring eye and having its sides extended radially from the eye and looped to form opposing jawsv which are spring impelled toward each other by the eye, with the terminal of one of the sides angularly deflected from the plane of the eye'to form an entrance'throat to the loops constituting said jaws, the

closed ends of the loops forming the jaws being deflected to facilitate engagement with .a line.

In testimony whereof he afiixes his-signature.

' PAUL CAMPBELLQ 

